Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defined sections-has over the years required the most careful and regular review. Responding to changes in society and to the inventions and perceptions that shape such changes, the editors periodically drop or merge old departments and start new ones. Last year two new sections were added, Design and Video. This week marks the introduction of TIME's newest department, Computers. No section is ever christened without deliberate second-guessing and parent-like worry. But the decision this time seemed both easy and logical. Simply put, a Computers section added up. As TIME said in its 1978 cover story...
...jeans and Bass moccasins, is trying to figure out what went wrong with her business data-management program. She is an old hand at such troubleshooting, having spent much of last semester "debugging" a program that, when printed out, stretches over 30 ft. Jim McGuire, 13, is creating a video game called Spaceship, which will let electronic star warriors zap a boxy-looking orbital intruder. A more mundane program is emerging from 15-year-old Dave McCann's terminal: a verb test for seventh-and eighth-grade Spanish classes. Off in a corner two youngsters are putting the impish...
...Levy worries: "Capacity has at last met, and exceeded, demand. We cannot push the market faster than it's going to grow." Maybe not faster; but surely further. The number of households owning video games is expected to double to almost 20% by year's end. Industry observers believe 100 million cartridges will be sold this year. And there is always Europe, where roughly 1% of the TV households have video games. Those numbers are sure to change. In Britain, for one, "pack it in" may take on a whole new meaning...
...that it may be too good to resist. Customers pay a monthly $9.95 for access to 80 channels and the Qube system, then an additional fee for each of the five subscription channels. There will soon be hundreds of pay-per-view attractions each month that could turn a video freak into an unintentional deadbeat. In conjunction with the Dallas city council, Warner-Amex has discussed setting a debt ceiling for customers. In Columbus, Warner-Amex officials already have a plan for cable-holies. When the tab exceeds $25 extra in a given month, they "give you a call...
...make a will on video. Send a valentine. Take an inventory. Now you can even go back to high school. Video Entrepreneur Ted Brown of Torrance, Calif., specializes in the high school market: his small company shoots 110 hours of a school year, then edits the footage down to a tidy 60-min. Videoyearbook. Price per cassette: $60. No lunch money, please...